粲粲

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Chinese

beautiful; bright; splendid
beautiful; bright; splendid; smilingly
 
beautiful; bright; splendid
beautiful; bright; splendid; smilingly
 
trad. (粲粲)
simp. #(粲粲)

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (14)
Final () (61)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () I
Fanqie
Baxter tshanH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/t͡sʰɑnH/
Pan
Wuyun
/t͡sʰɑnH/
Shao
Rongfen
/t͡sʰɑnH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/t͡sʰanH/
Li
Rong
/t͡sʰɑnH/
Wang
Li
/t͡sʰɑnH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/t͡sʰɑnH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
càn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
caan3
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
càn
Middle
Chinese
‹ tshanH ›
Old
Chinese
/*ˁar-s/
English bright and white

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 1119
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*sʰaːns/
Notes

Adjective

粲粲

  1. (literary) bright; radiant
  2. (literary) smiling; beaming
  3. (literary) wide; vast

Japanese

Kanji in this term
さん
Hyōgai
さん
Hyōgai
on'yomi
For pronunciation and definitions of 粲粲 – see the following entry.
燦々さんさん
brilliant, bright
Alternative spellings
燦燦, 粲々
(This term, 粲粲, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)